Medical Terminology: Week 3: Building Greek Vocabulary

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ton

[a stretching] (muscular) tone, flawless

sep

[be putrid] be infected (combining form)

rhag

[burst forth] flow profusely, hemorrhage (combining form)

pyr

[fire] fever, burning (combining form)

poli

[gray] gray matter of the brain and spinal cord (combining form)

my(s)

[mouse] muscle (combining form)

myc(et)

[mushroom] fungus (combining form)

rhe

[run] flow, secrete (combining form)

crin

[separate] secrete, secretion

psych

[soul], mind (combining form)

path

[suffering] disease (combining form)

hist(i)

[web] tissue (combining form)

tom

a cutting, slice, incision (combining form)

gram

a record of the activity of an organ (often an x-ray) (compound suffix form)

tome

a surgical instrument for cutting (compound suffix form)

scope

an instrument for examining (compound suffix form)

graph

an instrument for recording the activity of an organ (compound suffix form)

pyrex

be feverish (combining form)

som(at), -soma

body (combining form)

myel

bone marrow, spinal cord (combining form)

rrhexis

bursting (of tissues), rupture (compound suffix form)

genous

by, produced by or in (compound suffix form)

chondr

cartilage (combining form)

genic

causing, producing, caused (compound suffix form)

gen(e), -gen

come into being, produce (combining form)

necr

corpse; dead (combining form)

ly(s)

destroy, break down (combining form)

ectasia, ectasis, ectomy

dilation, enlargement, surgical excision, removal of all or part of an organ (compound suffix form)

pathy

disease (compound suffix form)

lysis

dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration (compound suffix form)

ptosis

dropping, sagging, prolapse (of an organ or part) (compound suffix form)

ot

ear (combining form)

tel

end, completion (combining form)

is

equal, same, similar, alike (combining form)

pt

fall, sag, drop, prolapse (combining form)

pyret

fever (combining form)

olig

few, deficient (combining form)

in, inos

fiber, muscle (combining form)

dactyl

finger, toe (combining form)

onych

fingernail, toenail (combining form)

pod

foot (combining form)

genesis

formation, origin (compound suffix form)

chlor

green (combining form)

iatr

healer, physician, treatment (combining form)

icter

jaundice (combining form)

scop

look at, examine (combining form)

phil

love; have an affinity for (combining form)

poly

many, excessive (combining form)

mening, meninx

meningeal membrane, meninges (combining form)

kine

move (combining form)

kines(i)

movement, motion (combining form)

myx

mucus (combining form)

trachel

neck, cervix (combining form)

rhin

nose (combining form)

idi

of one's self (combining form)

por

passage, opening, duct, pore, cavity (combining form)

lytic

pertaining to dissolution or decomposition, disintegration (compound suffix form)

rrhea

profuse discharge, excessive secretion (compound suffix form)

rrhagia

profuse discharge, hemorrhage (compound suffix form)

rhex

rupture (combining form)

aut

self (combining form)

esthe(s)

sensation, sensitivity, sense (combining form)

derm(at), derma

skin (combining form)

hypn

sleep (combining form)

gram

something written, a record (combining form)

arachn

spider, web; arachnoid membrane (combining form)

orth

straight, erect; normal (combining form)

sthen

strength (combining form)

ta

stretching (combining form)

narc

stupor, numbness (combining form)

gen

substance that produces (compound suffix form)

tomy

surgical incision (compound suffix form)

hidr(ot), idr

sweat (combining form)

ten-, tenon(t)

tendon (combining form)

graphy

the recording of an organ (usually by x-ray), descriptive treatise (on a subject) dissolution, reduction, decomposition, disintegration (compound suffix form)

therap(eu)

treat medically, heal (combining form)

(h)elc

ulcer (combining form)

hydr

water, fluid (combining form)

graph

write, record (combining form)

xanth

yellow (combining form)


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